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Training Course with Pete Mesley by Richard Robinson
When I signed up to do these two TDI (Technical diving International) courses conjointly, I was expecting to spend days learning about 100 % oxygen, incorporating lots of redundancy into Dive Plans,
Richie and Pete / Photograph by Rachel Agnew
repeating alot of Dive Physiology in the classroom and doing six dives showing that you can maintain good buoyancy and on each dive deploying a marker buoy (which I had secretly hated doing).
I had heard mixed reports from people who’s advice I respected, telling me that the course was very hard to very simple and not worth doing.
Simply put this was the best course I have done and some of the most rewarding dives I have had without a camera.
Pete’s style of teaching takes you past the scope of the course. It’s not a case of learning something that you can repeat in an exam, but he helped to give a true understanding of the material which led to answering questions that had been in the back of my mind for along time that I did not know how
to ask.
As a photographer I pride myself on good buoyancy, but in the water Pete pushed my skills past a level I thought I could reach, The dives were by know means easy but man were they rewarding, leaving me a much more confident and conscientious diver.
This course may not be suited for everyone, but I would certainly recommend it to everyone who is ready to take the step into Technical Diving or looking for a challenge that will improve their diving skills 100%.
